The correct answer is A) A soldier must always follow orders.
<em>The principle associated with the Nuremberg Trials would Shumard agree would be "A soldier must always follow orders."</em>
The following statement was made by Robert H. Shumard, a crewman of the B-29 that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima:
"Nobody actually wants to cause the destruction we caused. But it was through necessity rather than a wanton type of destruction. It was something that had to be done."
And that is the job of a soldier. To follow orders without question. That is how things work in the militia.
The Nuremberg principles were a set of guidelines to determine what was a war crime. There were seven. This quote refers to principle four, "superior orders," that said: "the fact that a person acted pursuant to the order of his government or superior, does not relieve him from responsibility under international law, provided a moral choice was in fact, possible to him."
